The Killing Flower, Linbury Studio Theatre, London by Edward Bhesania

Linbury Studio Theatre, London: Four hundred years after his death, the Italian nobleman and composer Carlo Gesualdo is renowned as much for the brutal murders of his wife and her lover as for his sacred motets or innovative madrigals. Salvatore Sciarrino's opera (1998) is based on a mid-17th century play recounting these crimes of passion, from which he fashioned his own libretto. The text is loaded with symbol…

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